CaseOther2018

Brandon, FL, USA

At least five line formations, several lights in each line. One in the Eastern sky made up of blue, white and green lights, the others

Report quality: Moderate65/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-04-05
Where
Brandon, FL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
Ongoing
Geo
27.938, -82.286 · exact
Slug
other-over-brandon-fl-2018-5a4aa9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • This is one of 39 reports logged in Brandon, FL.
  • This case is one of 226 Florida reports filed in 2018.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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